This thread is super fun lol.
I was asleep that afternoon actually, and woke up because my mum called. She was talking about something I can't remember and I put her on speaker and checked my email and there it was. I freaked and dropped my phone. And then screamed because I'd gotten my top choice first and so early in the year too. I was dancing around my room for like a minute before actually telling my mum what happened.
Then I texted my sister and my two best friends. And exchanged a series of emoticons lol, because we do that.
The next day I emailed the chief of our service, who is also my mentor, who is also my PI and he was super excited. We had a meeting later that morning and he congratulated me in front of the whole team and then everyone had to know the details - it was pretty awesome, I won't lie.
Next day I was in clinic, told one of the attendings, it's his school, and he jumped out of his seat and high-fived me. And then told everyone that came by the news - lol they were almost more excited than I was at this point.
The next day I told my other PI at our 1:1 meeting and we essentially spent the rest of the meeting hypothetically planning my career path lol.
I think the news sharing took around two weeks. And now whenever the attendings say anything it's almost always prefaced with, "and when you're in med school."
I will say I'm super glad it was early, because I'm a big planner and I'm grateful for all the planning time I've gotten. Plus I get to take Biochem in the winter lol!
Sometimes I think, this is really the beginning of this phase of my life. Just the first step really, but it feels like a giant leap.
